Ahhh, Lauryn Hill is one of a kind. There’s no one else like her. She recently performed in Accra, Ghana and the clips of her sets from the show are fire. If you’re a Lauryn fan, you’re going to love this. Watch it (plus a review of the show), after the click
The great Lauryn Hill performed in Accra, Ghana, this past weekend during the three-day Big Weekend Afro-Beats Festival 2014. It was her first show in West Africa and she had the crowd on their feet, singing her classics from the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album, her Unplugged album, her Fugee days and beyond. She also did reggae covers of songs from her ex-father in law, Bob Marley (Lauryn has six kids with his son, Rohan Marley).
Vickie Remoe over at Swit Salone filmed the event and shared her vid; watch it below:
Before I get into Miss Hill’s set let me give you some secret info…One week before Lauryn had to be in Ghana her band leader died and the whole band cancelled on her so the guys at BBNZ had to book Lauryn a new band and fly them to Accra. On arrival one of the new band members fainted at the Airport in Accra, but came to shortly after. The next two days up to the night of their performance were full of constant rehearsal as this band was new to Lauryn. So there was no rest from arrival in Accra till Lauryn got up on stage at about midnight on Sunday and stunned us with a two hour tornado of sound and movement that all who saw will never forget.
She came on stage in dark thigh-high high heeled boots covered in golden bohemian butterfly-ish henna, a dark knee-length huge flower african print umbrella skirt and a dark long sleeved african print stretch turtleneck. Her hair was short and hers and she looked serious and beautiful. Chale she commanded the stage from pih! Go!!
As the band hit us hard with music, she rap/sung her lyrics with free jazz signature top speeds fitting 6/8 raps into 4/4 beats and vice versa plus more techniques I will learn how to explain one day. She kept looking over her shoulder from time to time to correct the sound guy or the band till she was satisfied with them. Just as I begun to feel she was rushing through her set she slowed things down a bit to connect with her audience taking a 5 minute break to go and bring her acoustic guitar. We sang along to all her songs and later the hip-hop heads amongst us like Shocker went crazy when she begun to perform stuff from Fugees because the songs sounded just like they did when we were in high school…
Read the whole piece at NYDJLive.com
Love love love.
